Voters Reject Traditional Parties in Elections Marred by Violence by April Howard, Toward Freedom A soldier running from angry protesters died instantly when he fell off of a cliff, town offices were burned down, and one mayor escaped to Lima,… Read morePERU: ELITE FACE THE HEAT
Continue ReadingPERU: ELITE FACE THE HEATCampesinos Mobilize for Agrarian Reform by Benjamin Dangl, Toward Freedom Silvestre Saisari, a bearded, soft-spoken leader in the Bolivian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), sat in his office in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The building was surrounded by a high cement wall… Read moreLAND AND POWER IN BOLIVIA
Continue ReadingLAND AND POWER IN BOLIVIAWhat is Behind Bush’s Andean “Anti-Terrorist” Strategy? by Julian Monroy, WW4 REPORT Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe Velez—the Bush administration’s main ally in the hemispheric war on terrorism and drugs, as well as in the pursuit of free trade policies—was in… Read moreCOLOMBIA: WASHINGTON & THE PARA SCANDAL
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: WASHINGTON & THE PARA SCANDALState Terror and the Struggle for Ecopetrol by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT After seven hours of debate on Dec. 12, Colombia’s Congress voted 60-29 to authorize the sale of a 20% stake in the Colombian state oil company. Ecopetrol. Under… Read moreCOLOMBIA: THE PARAS & THE OIL CARTEL
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: THE PARAS & THE OIL CARTELIjaw Militia Fight the Oil Cartel by Ike Okonta “They have taken crafty counsel against thy people; and consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation.” —Oboko Bello, president… Read moreNIGER DELTA: BEHIND THE MASK
Continue ReadingNIGER DELTA: BEHIND THE MASK“Green Energy” Panacea or Just the Latest Hype? by Brian Tokar, WW4 REPORT You can hardly open up a major newspaper or national magazine these days without encountering the latest hype about biofuels, and how they’re going to save oil,… Read moreTHE REAL SCOOP ON BIOFUELS
Continue ReadingTHE REAL SCOOP ON BIOFUELSRafael Correa and the Popular Movements by Yeidy Rosa, WW4 REPORT When Alvaro Noboa, Ecuador’s richest man, won enough votes during the October 15 first round of the presidential election to advance into the final runoff on November 26, rural… Read moreECUADOR’S CHAVEZ?
Continue ReadingECUADOR’S CHAVEZ?A Model for the Korean Peninsula? by Rene Wadlow, Toward Freedom With a political sky darkened by the nuclear weapon test of North Korea and the growing tensions over the nuclear program of Iran, a ray of sunlight comes from… Read moreNUCLEAR-FREE CENTRAL ASIA
Continue ReadingNUCLEAR-FREE CENTRAL ASIAInternational Complicity in Morocco’s Repression by Simon Cunich, Green Left Weekly On October 31, Morocco’s allies on the United Nations Security Council-including France, the United States and Britain—blocked a motion to condemn human rights abuses against the people of occupied… Read moreTHE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN SAHARA
Continue ReadingTHE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN SAHARADissected Nations Oppose Wall and Militarization by Brenda Norrell, IRC Americas Program Indigenous peoples at the Border Summit of the Americas on Tohono O’odham tribal land opposed the construction of a border wall, which will dissect indigenous communities on ancestral… Read moreINDIGENOUS BORDER SUMMIT
Continue ReadingINDIGENOUS BORDER SUMMITfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: The Bolivian government of President Evo Morales Ayma met on Nov. 25 with right-wing opposition forces to try to resolve a political crisis that came to a head when the rightwing Democratic and… Read moreBOLIVIA: THE OPPOSITION STRIKES BACK
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: THE OPPOSITION STRIKES BACKfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Oct. 23, after a weekend of intense negotiations, the Achuar indigenous nation reached an agreement with the Peruvian government and the Argentine oil company Pluspetrol, bringing an end to a nearly two-week… Read morePERU: ACHUAR WIN OIL FIGHT
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